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I've got a small amount of money in both a Tesco Internet Saver and a Tesco Instant Access Saver. I've tried numerous times transfer money (£2) out of each of the accounts. I've tried to transfer to Nationwide, Lloyds, both of my two Tesco Current accounts but have, each time, received an error message and no transfer takes place. I've tried on different days of the week, different times of day.

Been reported before. When they've completed their ID checks and received your signed form they're supposed to remove a flag. Occasionally they forget!

But I think rather than try multiple times, to multiple accounts, at multiple times of the day, on multiple days of the week, and then post on here, and then wait for a reply...I'd have made a quick phone call. Unless you're out of the country?

Been reported before. When they've completed their ID checks and received your signed form they're supposed to remove a flag. Occasionally they forget!

But I think rather than try multiple times, to multiple accounts, at multiple times of the day, on multiple days of the week, and then post on here, and then wait for a reply...I'd have made a quick phone call. Unless you're out of the country?

Been reported before. When they've completed their ID checks and received your signed form they're supposed to remove a flag. Occasionally they forget!

But I think rather than try multiple times, to multiple accounts, at multiple times of the day, on multiple days of the week, and then post on here, and then wait for a reply...I'd have made a quick phone call. Unless you're out of the country?

The point of saying I'd tried different times/days/accounts was not to suggest I'd been trying hundreds of times but to show I hadn't just tried once in the early hours of the morning.

It was gone midnight that I last tried. I thought I must be missing something obvious and that I'd wake up to find someone had posted the obvious thing I was missing. That obvious thing turns out to be 'give them a call'. Replies usually come quickly here anyway.

Sorry, what I meant was that I tried again because that's what it told me. I thought it was a temporary technical issue. There should be messages that are sufficiently useful to suggesting a course of action.

Just got off the phone to Tesco. It appears there is a block on the accounts. The person I talked to was looking to see if they'd received a signature/signed declaration from me for both the savings accounts. I don't think I was ever sent them though if I was then they would have been returned. I did return signed declarations for both the current accounts. He could see these and said he would find out if these were sufficient to allow the block to be removed from the savings accounts. He said he'd call me back but in the meantime I could try again later.

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